Word: cosmo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church music's most honored living men, British-born Dr. Noble was organist (for 15 years and some 14,000 services) at 600-year-old York Minster, celebrated for its architecture and its acoustics.* When he left in 1913 to come to the U.S., Archbishop of York Cosmo Gordon Lang (later Archbishop of Canterbury) charged him: "I want you to go to America and take some of York Minster into your church on Fifth Avenue. You must carry some of the old world into...
...Manhattan's swank Park Avenue Racquet & Tennis Club, the British racquets team met the U.S. in the first international racquets team match since 1930. The British relied on control, while the Americans concentrated on slugging the ball. Britain's doubles team of Cosmo Crawley and Jack Paule, never beaten, kept their record intact. Final score: Britain...
Died. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 81, retired (in 1942) Archbishop of Canterbury, who helped raise the wind that blew Edward VIII from his throne ; in Richmond, England...
Henry Reichhold, chairman of Detroit's Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., world's biggest synthetic resin maker, has developed an unbreakable plastic which he claims is cheaper than Victor's. He has bought Cosmopolitan Records, Inc. (Cosmo), which is already producing 800,000 shellac records a month. After the first of the year, Reichhold expects to make 200,000 unbreakable records monthly-selling between 50? and 75? apiece. As president of the Detroit Symphony, he expects to give Victor a run for its money in classical as well as popular records...
...conservative. There is so little about him that is reminiscent of his predecessor's eloquent and influential liberalism that many wondered last week if the appointment meant that the Church of England was swinging back from the brief near-socialism of William Temple to the Toryism of Cosmo Gordon Lang...